Approaching Stockton Town Centre from Church Road, Stockton c1985.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Approaching Stockton Town Centre from Church Road, Stockton c1985.
Does this help the identification of the dairy? Looks like Northern sold it to the Co-op in 1942
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/a096bbc1-b9ce-4ab7-9453-fe82d49ee254
Ok Fred. We will have to differ. Also we would be less than 8 years old. I don’t remember it being built.
The site is now occupied by the Hilton Hotel.
The building on the other side of the roundabout is the Northern Dairies complex. I remember it being built in the late forties. I also recollect it being demolished around 2000. The factories that were built on the Bailey Street and Portrack side of Church Road, that were of the same vintage, seem to have survived, however. I suppose Northern Dairies was too specialised to be converted to other uses
I think you will find it was the Coop Dairy. Fred.
Dear Billy
we will have to differ, but I did see it getting built and then passed it on my way to the town and Richard Hind school. From 1953 to 59. So I am sure its original owner was Northern Dairies
Dear Fred. On picture Stockton archive you will see a post dated July 19 2013 which clearly shows the dairy as Co-op.
It was the Co-op Dairy I was employed by the Co-op maintenance department and worked on the dairy many times.